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START BUILDING →

THE SHIFT

AI ASSISTANT (OLD PARADIGM)
YOU → [Question] → AI → [Answer] → YOU

Status: You're always in the loop.
Speed: One turn at a time.
Your role: Operator.

TOOLS

No coding required.

Clear thinking > coding ability.

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ChatGPT
Zapier

workflows + reasoning + automation

You don't write code. You write instructions.

THE 5-DAY BUILD SPRINT

How the week works

DAY 1

What Is an Agent?

2 hrs · Learn the paradigm. Find your opportunity.

DAY 2

Design the Workflow

2 hrs · Decompose goals. Draft prompts.

DAYS 3–4

BUILD SPRINT

8 hrs total · Ship your agent. Make it work.

DAY 5

Debug, Demo, Deploy

2 hrs · Test. Present. Launch to the world.

PROJECT GALLERY

What you could build

Email Triage Agent

Reads your inbox, categorizes by urgency, drafts response templates.

Communication

Research Agent

Give it a topic. It searches arXiv, HN, and newsletters. Saves summaries to Notion.

Research

Course Prep Agent

Give it a topic. It generates reading list, quiz questions, and discussion prompts.

Education

Fitness Tracking Agent

Logs workouts from voice notes, tracks progress, flags plateaus.

Health

Build Your Own

Anything. The framework is the same.

Open

THE BUILD RULES

1

BY END OF DAY 4, YOUR AGENT MUST WORK.

Not be polished. WORK.

2

BORING AND WORKING BEATS AMBITIOUS AND BROKEN.

Ship the minimum viable agent.

3

IF YOU'RE STUCK, ASK A PEER FIRST.

Struggle is the curriculum.

COURSE OUTPUT

What you leave with

SKILLS

  • → Goal decomposition
  • → Prompt design for autonomous systems
  • → Error debugging and iteration
  • → Agent evaluation and quality control

ARTIFACTS

  • → A working AI agent solving a real problem
  • → A portfolio of agent workflows
  • → The mental model of "architect vs. operator"

The future belongs to people who know how to direct intelligent systems.

You don't need to be technical. You need to be unstoppable.